Song of Dewey Beard : Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn /
Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fi...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2014]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fighting to reclaim his homeland and acting as "old Dewey Beard," a living relic of the "old West" for the tourists. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780803269408 |